Saturday Night LiveIt is still pulling its punches with regard to the Presidents of the United States.
We’ve watched the sketch series sugar coat the first nine months of Joe Biden’s administration, a stark contrast to how SNLThe White House occupant before them.
Until now, some shows have barely spoken of the Commander in Chief. Other shows reserved the sharpest insults for GOP-related targets.
Not last weekend.
The NBC program opened with President Biden (James Austin Johnson), lamenting his terrible poll results. The 2013 Joe Biden version, played by ex-presidents, gives Biden a boost. SNLJason Sudeikis is a standout.
Biden is encouraged to smile by the 2013 model.
“How could you be me? You seem so happy, so carefree, so … what’s the word I’m looking for?” the current Biden asks.
“Lucid!” Sudeikis’ version barks in delight.
Allow that to sink in. SNL is admitting what we’re all seeing, but what the press and late night comedians won’t dare mention. President Biden has lost something…important.
Otherwise, it’s a thin sketch. The only exception is the Biden 2013 sniffing the current model. That reference to the real Biden’s inappropriate behavior that got memory holed by comedians once he became a serious White House contender in 2020.
This skit remains remarkable because of a few things.
One is that it shows how SNLThe Biden administration is still being embraced, with flak Jen Psaki played by Chloe Fineman treated as truthteller and not as what actually appears on TV or in our phones.
“I’m bad at lying,” the faux Psaki says before she exist the sketch. That’s just embarrassing spin.
Plus, we aren’t told why Biden’s poll numbers are cratering.
- A disaster along the U.S./Mexico border
- A calamitous Afghanistan pullout
- Roaring gas prices
- Soaring inflation
- Supply chain chaos
- Chaotic COVID-19 leadership
Yet a key issue Biden can’t shake is his obvious mental decline, shown most recently when he stood, with his fists clenched, for 19 straight seconds during a CNN townhall.
The show’s hard-left Weekend UpdateThe issue was also brought up by segment.
The faux news anchors, Colin Jost and Michael Che, noted Biden said recently that he hadn’t had time to visit the Southern border.
“Though his approval rating has,” Jost mocked alongside a graphic of the president’s dipping approval rating, which also made good comedic fodder for the episode’s cold open.
Jost added: “Insiders are also saying that, during meetings, President Biden repeatedly uses the f-word in conversation. More concerning, the f-word he keeps using is ‘forget.’”
SNL continues to cover for Biden’s ineptitude and is unwilling to showcase the many reasons his poll numbers are disastrous. Biden’s mental health is still the focus of laughter.
That’s no accident.
By illustrating the Commander in Chief’s waning mental state, though, it could signal other comedians that the matter can no longer be overlooked by their partisan comedy.
If Biden’s fragile mindset becomes a running gag across pop culture, he may look back at his current poll numbers as, “the good ol’ days.”
[Cross-posted from Hollywood in Toto]
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